Des Isles v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
200 F.2d 614 · 1952
Citation profile
74 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions — most recently June 1986 · most notably Lewis v. Brautigam (1955), Roberts v. Williams (1971)
74 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on De Loach v. Crowley's, Inc. · Atlantic Coast Line R. Co. v. Mims · Ide v. City of St. Cloud · Kohler v. Jacobs
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * *. As stated by Professor Moore, “the courts have ruled time and again that a motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim should not be granted unless it appears to a certainty that the plaintiff would be entitled to no relief under any state of facts which could be proved in support of his claim.” 2 Moore’s Federal Practice, 2nd Ed., Sec. 8.13, p. 1653.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Under the Rules of Civil Procedure a case consists not in the pleadings, but the evidence, for which the pleadings furnish the basis. Cases are generally to be tried on the proofs rather than the pleadings.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.